3.6.14 A research team from Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley appeared on Capitol Hill Thurs., Feb. 27, to share RAPMOD — a backpack-mounted system for quickly mapping building energy use and identifying ways to reduce it — at a reception hosted by The Center for Clean Energy Innovation and the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation. The event followed the annual Energy Innovation Summit in Washington, D.C. held by ARPA-E, the federal Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy. The agency, part of the Department of Energy, funds the backpack project along with other lab research. Read more here.